It’s a new record

NEW ZEALAND’S NEW TRUCK SALES HIT record-breaking heights last year – eclipsing 2017’s previous best annual result by 105 trucks. The new milestone for the overall market (trucks with a GVM above 4.5 tonnes) was achieved despite a December sales slump. That month saw just 315 registrations. Remarkably, that was still 35 up on the same month in 2018 – thanks to that having been the worst December result in six years, putting paid to a likely record that year.

So 2019’s 5314 total sales amounted to 150 more trucks than 2018’s total…and a modest 2% improvement on 2017’s 5209 former record.

Within last year’s milestone market, Isuzu continued its standout streak as the biggest-selling make on the NZ market….for the 20th consecutive year!

It was the only one of the top three makes to increase both its market share and volume – with 1261 sales for the year and a 23.73% share (up from 1197 and 23.18% in 2018).

FUSO lost volume and share for the second straight year after its remarkable comeback year in 2017 (when it sold 955 trucks for an 18.33% share) – but still easily held onto second place, with 794 sales and 14.94% of the market.

Hino and Mercedes-Benz, in third and fourth places for the year respectively, each narrowly bettered their 2018 performances….but had small dips in their market shares.

Volvo and Iveco completed the top six in 2019 – improving from seventh and ninth respectively in 2018 as they made gains in both sales and market share.

Kenworth, DAF and UD Trucks each lost volume and share – and dropped one or two places, while Scania held 10th – but with increased